This view was supported by President Muhammadu Buhari, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, during the public presentation of Fayemi’s book, ‘Unfinished Greatness: Envisioning a New Nigeria’, in Abuja, yesterday.
Buhari commended the governor for deploying his intellectual capacity in favour of national greatness and tasked Nigerians to read the book and put its lessons into practice.
Book reviewer, Dr. Joe Abah, agreed with the author, saying: “The book offers the perspectives of a firm believer in a Nigerian national agenda of unity, freedom, justice and equity.”
“Those perspectives are offered in the knowledge that national development is not necessarily a linear process or a one-off activity that if you just undertook you wouldn’t need to make any other effort.
According to him, “There is no silver bullet in development, no single sector or region or discrete problem that if we just got right, everything else would fall into place. Development is a messy combination of systemic problems that play out in unique contexts all over the world. Failures typically outnumber successes (and often blur into one another) and the emphasis must always be on learning.”
